amadavat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a variant name for the red avadavat, a small South and Southeast Asian estrildid finch whose breeding male is red with white spots

   The male amadavat displayed his bright red breeding plumage to the female.

A less common variant of avadavat. The bird name is an irregular adaptation of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, a trading center from which the cage birds were exported to Europe. The modern scientific name is Amandava amandava.

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